Bout time i finished up the post on these dudes. They’re doing some crazy shit lately – actually for a while – but they’ve been much more active on my radar since Nadastrom were here and they played us some rad Starks & Nacey tunes.
If you don’t already know, Steve Starks and Nacey’s background lies in Washington DC. They’re both part of the Nouveau Riche parties (with Gavin Holland) which i’ve only been hearing and reading good things about. They’ve got a bunch of tracks floating around the interwebs, and have had a couple of releases (solo and together) on that bit of hot, T&A Records.
Basically i’m just gonna throw up 6 (yeah i know, it was too hard to narrow em down) of my favourite tracks that they’ve given us.
Nacey – Six Million
This tune is just straight fun, like too much fun! I’m in bed writing this but as i listen i wanna jump up and have a pillow fight with a pack of girls in bonds…
Steve Starks – You Don’t Want None
Ultimate ghetto synth classic in this one. The classic Hip Hop/Dance hybrid that we’re all about at Scattermusic. HYPE.
Radioslave, Dubfire – Grindhouse (Steve Starks Bootleg)
I love how deep the original Dubfire remix is of this, I still play it. But Starks completely flips the song on it’s head. Still big and dirty but with a completely new sound and tune.
Tips:
Keep an eye out for their ultra remix of Rampage & Nader – track 3 in this mix.
Grab their TRO/Lydia EP and Starks’ Git Em EP (previewed below), all on T&A.
Watch this space for more Starks & Nacey!!!
This weekend The Espy and Scattermusic will be throwing down a super dope party. More specifically, on Saturday 14th we have Sharkslayer(FIN), Mighty Fools (NTL), Beataucue(FRA), Neoteric(CAN) and of course our very own Scattermusic Soundsystemwill be tearing up the Gershwin room for a night of futuristic, bass fueled madness. These are acts that we’ve wanted at our parties for a very long time now so we’re pretty freakin’ pleased to finally bill them (ie we’re all getting ready to go bat shit crazy on the night an slightly embarrass ourselves). I’m still not even sure quite how all this will fit into one night but we’ll find a way.
Tickets will set you back 28+BF (Thats like 7 clams per international act!!!!!!) and are available online throughOzTixandEpsy Online.Doors at 9pm.
In the spirt of coming together for the tour, Neoteric, Beataucue and Sharkslayer have put together this collection of brand new tracks. The fact that you’ve already read about 175 words of our site means I wont need to persuade you on this mix, it’s just a straight no brainer.
Mowgli Belly Dance (Solo Remix)
LA Riots Bombah (Mowgli Remix)
Headshotboyz NIA
The Shoes Stay the Same (Harvard Bass Remix)
Mom & Dad Bazic
Foamo Here Comes
Nujax Beat Gon Boom
Smalltown Romeo Love Tempo (Malente Remix)
Gingy & Bordello Vapourizer (Rynecologist Remix)
Manaré Voodoo
Flutuance & Dreamtime Make
Yeah! Woho! Pushing
Emperatron King Riddim (Sharkslayer remix)
Dooze Jackers Euh!
Canblaster Chicken Run (Rob Threezy remix)
Sam Tiba Barbie Weed (Subkittenz remix)
Green Velvet Harmageddon
Nacey Six Million
La Riots I Want to
Tony Senghore Burnin
Beataucue Untitled
Noob Benga
Savage Skulls & Douster Bad Gal (Crookers rmx)
Laserkraft 3D Nein Mann
Skrillex With your Friends
Bonus Round!
Win yourself a double pass to this show by answering one simple music nerd question. In this clip, who’s remix of Manges is Teisto playing? Email your answer to scattermusicpublicity@gmail.com, First correct answer wins (obviously).
I’m currently touring Europe with the Cumbia Cosmonauts, and Berlin is also on our itinerary (playing at Club Magnet and Cafe Zapata) in September. But one of the main men in Berlin we are keen to meet is Man Recordings head-honcho Daniel Haaksman - who we are playing with on the Generation Bass stage at the Incubate Festival (Netherlands). So here goes my interview with Daniel Haaksman, watch out for more exclusive Scatterblog interiews with European producer powerhouses we are meeting on tour…
M > Saca La Mois DJ!!
D > Daniel Haaksman
M:Man Recordings HQ is in Berlin. Is that just coincidence, or why have you chosen Berlin?
D: I moved to Berlin from Frankfurt in 1997 when I fell in love with a Berlin girl. Even though we split only after one year I decided to stay there as Berlin´s the only big city in Germany which offers a lot of space and cheap rent apt., so for artists of all kinds it´s the perfect place as you can follow your art 24-7 and not do it as a side job.
M: I have to say every remix of yours I’ve heard explodes the dancefloor (and there are many!). How do you do this? Do you have a formula or secret production technique? We want to know!
D: Well before starting Man Recordings and getting into music production I was DJing for many years. When I make tracks or remixes I make them from a DJ perspectiving aiming to achieve maximum mayhem on the dancefloor. There´s really not a formula for this, I also try to not stick with one BPM format but rather program all kinds of tempos and grooves for my remixes, all depending how the original track inspires me.
M: How would you describe the musical philosophy behind Man Recordings?
D: It started as the European platform for baile funk, and until today it´s the only label outside of Brasil that has dedicated to this sound. The last five, six releases were opening up to a more musically open reference system, where baile funk is one reference, but also music from Africa and the Carribean is becoming more included with artists such as Ku Bo or Bert On Beats. . But the over all philiosophy would be: Man Recordings releases fresh, exciting, nostalgia-free music from all over the globe.
M: Initially Man Recordings mainly released Baile Funk, what made you start a label so strongly representing Baile Funk?
D: In 2004 I released the compilation “Rio Baile Funk Favela Booty Beats” on my old label Essay Recordigns (which I ran from 1996 to 2004). When I saw how well the compilation was selling and what a global media resonance it created, I decided to start Man Recordings, establishing a multi leveled platform for baile funk in Europe. Still up until today it´s really hard to get hands on really good baile funk tracks, and especially collaborate with Rio funk artists, so Man was conceived as a label which would release the hard to get tracks from original producers such as Sany Pitbull, DJ Sandrinho, DJ Edgar or Amazing Clay, and artists such as Edu K and parallely establish an artist network in which producers from Europe and MCs from Brasil could work together. The Funk Mundial series for example is one of these platforms: I started it in 2006 when noticing that I was missing musical “bridges” in my DJ sets, i.e. tracks that would lead from baile funk to European club music. A lot of baile funk tracks are released in 128kps or 160kps MP3s, so when played on a high-quality European club sound system the tracks would usually sonically fail when mixed with some other electronic dance music tune. So I asked producers like Stereotyp, The Count+SInden and Crookers to make their versions of baile funk and sent them sample-folders of baile funk. On top of that, I sent them baile funk acappellas which I recorded in Rio with various MCs. The series had ten different releases and I´m happy to say that all producers made very individualistic adapations of baile funk – and all tracks worked perfect as “bridges” in clubs and became real anthems, such as “Tamborzuda” by The Count And Sinden or “Para De Graçinha” by Crookers.
M: In the past few years there have been a number of musical styles from Africa and Latin America making an appearance in European/North American/Australian club scene such as Baile Funk, Kuduro, Cumbia etc. Do you see these as fads or is there an increasingly inclusive musical revolution happening?
D: I think baile funk kicked off this new wave of music which emerges from cities that were formerly considered peripheral, being located in the “3rd world”. And considering the fast paced fashion of dance music, all the styles you mention have become fads. Nevertheless, I think those styles are representing a musical revolution. With the advent of the internet and file sharing, music from these formerly peripheral cities all of a sudden travel at high speed across the globe. Before the internet, it was always labels and media channels that would decide which music from which part of the world the audiences in Europe, Australia, Japan or US could listen too. Now that these barriers are gone, and music from the most obscure cities all of a sudden gets discovered or put into new contexts. But this is not only happening in the rich countries, also in places like Brasil, Colombia or Angola this accelerated speed of travelling music has effects, I mean look at Guarachero in Monterrey, Mexico which is a blend of speeded up Cumbia and European electro. Ten years ago, we wouldve heard of this music on one compilation, now you can watch and hear it unfold in real time as also the kids in Monterrey are blogging, doing mixtapes and sharing music so the whole world can follow it.
M: Any piece of advice to young and aspiring producers who want to hear their music explode in clubs all over the world?
D: First, find your own style, no problem if you try to emulate the styles of your favourite producers first, but then at one point take it from there and create an original sound. Then try to release as much quality tracks, remixes or mashups as possible, add some theme oriented mixtapes, the not-so-good tracks should remain on your hard drive, try to release at least one track every two weeks or at least once a month, no matter if it´s on a blog, label or mixtape. But most of all: Tell a story with what you do.
M: This year is the fifth anniversary for Man Recordings. Any special parties or releases planned?
D: There´ll be the “Valeu” compilation, released in early September, featuring exclusive tracks and remixes by Crookers, Zombie Disco Squad, Seiji, Schlachthofbronx, Oliver $, Edu K and many others, additionally we are planning a string of Man Recordings parties across Europe from September until November, and then hopefully a Man Rec party in Australia in March 2011.
M: What is the future direction of club music according to Daniel Haaksman?
D: I think a large part of mainstream club music will remain in the disco/house/techno continuum, but on the fringes it will continue to innovate. Watch out for producers from cities you never dreamt of having a club music scene.
Buy Daniel Haaksman’s latest release “Hands Up EP” from Beatport and download his unreleased remix of Classixx below:
The last few weeks have extra been large with festivals, tours and big gigs between the bunch here at scatterblog, its now at the point where im becoming scared for my health. The parties have all been huge and there is no off-time this week as our fav dj/producer is back in town.
Tomorrow night Late Night Date and Sweat It Out have teamed up to produce a label party crammed with local talent. Filled with the labels signings from Melbourne and Sydney and the king of quirkly left field dance Douster. Im expecting this to be one of the parties of the year and very much looking forward to representing the scatterblog crew by doing a vs set with Mat Cant that will be one full time freak-out show. Dress lightly and don’t forget to bring a towel!
First up im giving away 3 double passes to the first three people who can tell me the first two words spoken in the song attached for download below. Make sure u send your answers to this email: scattermusicteam@gmail.com
Douster has given us some exclusive heat here yet again. This tune rocks the dance hall dance vibe juuuuuuuust right for me. Crazy hook vocals, punchy kicks and a synth hook that rolls so dope. Im tipping this will be dropped by the man himself tomorrow night and i just cant wait to get dutty wit it. No more about the song, just download it and send your answers in if your from Melbourne and wanting to party tomorrow night.
It was really not all that long ago that i was speaking to Munchi about the idea of a Moombahton compilation. It actually feels like only yesterday, because all of a sudden here is a giant Moombah compilation of past and present gems from the big and quickly emerging names in the still incredibly small Moombahton community.
It was originally gonna be a release through Scattermusic, but obviously with all the big samples and copyright issues that would have followed, it was a bit hard.
It’s hard to pick out a few as my favourite – i’m definitely into the original productions thought – apart from the fact that they’re good, they also really push the sound forward into making it more it’s own thing. I do have to say that the Munchi originals are constantly getting my attention. His production is so upfront and original and from what i’ve found by playing it, it always gets dancefloors going spastic.
P.S. be on the look out for a FULL LENGTH album release of awesome Munchi Productions out later in the year. Seriously, he’s amazing me at the moment.
What’s the best thing about writing for a music blog? Your constantly meeting great producers, DJs, musicians as well as receiving a shit load of free music! Yep, it’s that simple. EnterFaux Paswho introduced himself to me a few years back while eagerly downloading a bunch of digital cumbia from the blog. After sending me the links to his back catalog I was nothing short of blown away! You know those people who seem to have an endless supply of original thinking and creative hustle? Well he’s one of them. Apart from his busy production schedule he also releases much of his music himself, runs a top notch blog, an online storeand is also a regular perverter of Melbourne’s radio waves. Now his latest release titled Vanderbilt has come around and I’m happy to report that Scattermusic represented on the remix front, the result of which is the squeaky tribal joint linked below. I highly recommend grabbing the whole release though, availableonline for free and apart from the two killer originals, there’s also top notch remix work form Pasobionic, Crumbs and Aoi.
Here we go, this is the real deal. We’ve all been super exited about this release here at the Scattermusic HQ for some time, from first hearing the hype and heavy original, to then having three amazing remixes come back from our extended family. Perhaps more than any of our previous releases, this baby sums up where our sound is at right now as a bunch of certified music nerds. Check the official press spiel below.
From the inner reaches of Scattermusic comes Mu-Gen, with his own distinctive brand of warped, percussive, distorted and slightly mad club music. After playing a pivotal role in the Melbourne club scene for the last fifteen years, playing festivals, touring abroad, running club nights, and contributing to numerous side projects, Fizzdom represents his first and well overdue solo release. The result, an unruly beast where marching snares collide with fragments of dancehall toasts, non-regulation lasers, mile-deep kick drums and atmospheric disturbances. Fizzdom is a lethal club weapon bound for packed and sweaty dance floors around the globe, having already gained support from respected DJ’s such as Dave Nada, Sinden and Neoteric.
Remix duties are correctly handled by Munchi (NTL) who slows down the tempo while turning up the heat to create a certified heavy moombahton thriller, Sam Tiba (FRA) who shifts things into a more slightly stable yet none the less freaky club stomper and Mexico’s Maria y José flips that whole deal into a grinding, psychedelic, cumbia rave anthem.
Just a quick post to draw a little more attention to the whole 8-bit cumbia thing that’s going down right now. I’ll admit that It takes a while for this stuff to grow on you, but once you’ve heard half a dozen tunes you’ll be strangely hooked. This brings me to our duo Super Guachin who seem to be leading the charge with their signature sound generated through old, modified 8-bit consoles. For more of their work check out the Argentinean net labelCabezawhere you can download a bunch of tunes for free.
Bonus Round!!!! Given that I actually know very little about Super Guachin, I decided to shoot them three no brainer questions to help shed a little more light on the elusive duo
SG: Well i ve been producing since 2008 experimenting with a few softs and a lot of hardware. In Super Guachin proyect we are 2 peoples and we produce animations to be projected in real time at live shows. Making a sort of 8bit tropical psychedelic trip.
L: What kind of gear do you use to get your signature sound?
SG: We are huge nerds collect vintage game consoles and old computers (like Atari, Commodore 64, Game Boy, NES and ZX Spectrum) with wich progamming sounds in trackers and old soft, I record a lot of things in my laptop home studio (old synths, new synths, electronic toys, guiros, cowbells, rythm machines and more)
L: Are there some recent releases people can go to too and check out more of your production?
SG: At the moment people can buy a few new tracks at Cabeza! (www.cabeza-netlabel.com) but soon there will be in other labels new material
Where Americas Vol. 1 focused on the IDM-Cumbia experimentation coming out of Argentina, my second Americas Volume compilation is dominated by a wealth of new Mexican music, especially from the prolific Tijuana scene. Clorofila (who actually lives in Pasadena, California) from the influential Nortec Collective is represented with two remixes, and also from Tijuana are experimental folk-pop producers Los Macuanos and Maria y Jose: two projects who are spearheading a new direction in indy meets electronica meets folk meets club imbued with a distinctive Mexican sense of humour and irony. Other parts of Mexico are represented by a promising debut release from Melbourne-based Mexico City-inspired folk-dub project Nahuatl Sound System, two songs from Monterrey’s Sr. Amable and finally Los Amparito and Pepepe, both from Guadalajara.
Peru is represented this time by several remixes of songs by the Paris-based Radiokijada, produced by Rodolfo Munoz and Christoph H. Mueller of Gotan Project. I’m especially hyped to include another unreleased track by Cero 39 (for me personally the most exciting contemporary Colombian producer).
Whilst “Americas” may appear to be a series of compilations selected for geographical criteria, far beyond there having to be an Americas connection, the choice of songs is purely aesthetic. In that way I present a specific set of my personal tastes in digging/listening, but potentially also capture a particular moment in the history of the most exciting music crossing the borders of folk, electronica and pop…
Did everyone know that we created a Moombahton Soundcloud group?? More and more tracks keep going up there. So please join and help it expand. It’s becoming a really good access point to listen to new Moombahton… Moombahton
For the last few months i have been looking forward to this coming weekend so much, not am i celebrating the day of my birth but I’m also DJing with one of my favourite MC’s in the world, Lady Chann! If you don’t know who Lady Chann is then its time sit up and pay attention because she is about to take over and you need to be ready, and that’s real talk!
The are a lot of MC’s out there doing there thing over Funky tunes at the moment but Lady Chann is definitely one that is standing up above the rest. Not one to stick to the one sound with her unleashing over anything from bashment riddims, grime, funky, dubstep and everything in between. Lady Chann’s work ethic is something not to be messed with either, it seems like every week I’m getting a tune that she features on and with talks of an album coming out in the first quarter of 2011 (executive produced by the godfather Sticky) i don’t see her slowing down anytime soon.
All the way back in May Lady Chann released her Dun Dem Season Mixtape that was mixed by the guys from South Rakkas Crew and its filled with hits like “Sticky Situation” and “King Riddim” plus her upcoming single “Treble To Your Bass” that should hopefully be released soon!
Recently Lady Chann did a track with Australia’s own Two Fresh which has been going great in the clubs over here and has been added to radio. Our boy Sampology from Brisbane did a great remix of this track that has been a staple in most of our sets since its been released, big up Sam!
This Friday night Lady Chann performs at The Espy in St Kilda, Melbourne with a huge line up including Sydney’s Killa Queenz, Motley (UK), Fraksha & Afficks, Mamacita Bonnita and myself Mat Cant. Doors open at 9pm, entry is $20 on the door or you can buy tickets here, do yourself a favor and check this show out and come help celebrate me becoming another year older!
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